Show I Rival Devils Create Sensation SensationS Ii S BY V FRANKLIN FYLES New York Aug 21 Franz Molnar surprised Vienna greatly with The grety wih Devil Devi because he had no fame and who could expect Mephistophelean ftc fic tion non from fc him that thal that would more than cast cat a dim shadow in the brilliance of Faust His m play has han ha been acted iri iii most of the European Europea coun tries wih with eminent actors actor for or its Is Sa tan As s there is no reciprocity of copyright between Austria and the United States Molnar could not pro his work in this country He sold his ils practically valueless sanction to Colonel Henry w Savage to use the material which Savage tested down east ast in July Jul and dated a New York in for tor mid September Harrl Harri Harr Harrison son on Grey Fiske sent a cast cat of eight persons to lo Tarrytown the tho te Sleepy Hol Hot low ow of or Washington Irving I ng a month ago go to rehearse the principal roles told old them that their Jobs woud would come to o naught if f they th blabbed a word ord of what they tey were at and so got ready to o advertise last Monday londay morning moring that he ie would produce the play at one of of David DavJd theatres on Tuesday I I evening That was the first news of oC the he forestalling exploit Sav Say Savage age ge summoned his scattered company i in n haste hate by telegrams and announced In n the Monday afternoon journals that his is first frt Now New Nev York performance too would be b given on Tuesday evening Those were ere the to a duel dueland and nd dual ual presentation of The Devil Devi by iy Fiske In alliance with wih Belasco and by iy Savage in association with wih the theKia Claw Kia Erlanger syndicate I dont dabble often ofen in the business of oC the drama irama but In this case the row Is so peculiar as to be interesting The Jert of ot The Devil Devi Js Is s a matter mater of oC f literature and dramatic art at though and nd at this Wednesday morning moring writ writIng writing Ing ng I r cant assure you that it will wi be appreciated by other American audi audiences than its initial two as a it ought to o be and probably will wi The small smal doubt arises from the coldly nature of or its characters The Devil Devi is L not much more prone to t devil devilry devi deviltry tr try ry than those he tempts tempt along In evi evil vii courses An artist artst and his friends wife are lovers l vers but they have done no wrong and she for tor the sake of moral morl safety has promoted wedlock for him with wih a good girl Those facts are dis disclosed disclosed disclosed closed in his studio by his dismissal or of f his ht fond girl model The wife Is there tere to sit for her portrait A big carved chair is placed with Its Is back towards us for her to pose In and be behind behind hind It I is a screen not unlike a In n a I Roman Catholic or Protestant Episcopal church Up from this sanc of a construction the Devil Devi rises He is vaguely Mephistophelean In n aspect aspe t though without horns hoofs or tail tal protruding from Crom under his clothes of oC modern cut cu However he instantly gets to work ork demoniacally More than the briefest summary of ot what he does docs hold your at attention tenton In print although in stage ac acion acton action ion tion ton you his gleeful deviltry devitry might engross The of oC The Devil Devi its Is subtle allegory its Is moral morl purpose lies les lesIn In n the fact that this tangible potent sardonic master from hades haes might be regarded as a Invisible to o the persons he tempts arid and ad the sophistries with which he leads them astray astry might be taken for the voices of oC their own unholy ten tendencies tendencies tendencies He argues and disputes with wih the others frustrates their virtuous motives furthers their vicious desires and as a finally of satanic influence the he artist artst takes the wife ife away from her ler husband dishonors dishonor his affianced bride and devotes to infamy his loving model And all aU of it is but the Devils Devis single days amusement amusement When his ruination of or four persons Is complete he comes forward to the tt footlights leers at the audience jerks his thumb back at hIs hs victims and says sas jovially Well Vell Wel why not Edwin Stevens Is Savages Devil Devi and George Arliss is Fiskes If I Henry Ir Irving Irving Irving ving were alive alve he could place this among the best In his gallery galery of por portrayals portra portrayals tra als Stevens had bad rocketed racketed sleep sleeplessly sleeplessly sleeplessly lessly by rail rai to t get here from Crom Nova Scotia Scota Just In time for the perform performance ance and was said to be exhausted his comrades were unready and nO nd doubt many man helpful details were left lef out that will wi be put in Comparison therefore would be unfair The opposition opposition was all al ready I noted but one weakness we kness and that was In a scene at a abal ball bal where the movement and chatter chater of or minor guests gest show the care careful careful ful rul control seen in Fiske productions and I wondered why wh until I 1 heard that these supernumeraries had rehearsed only once with the principals as for fear they might might reveal the of the preparations they been taken to t Tarrytown Tarrtown but had been pre prepared pr prepared pared in town as they thought for Tor or orsome some play in which Mrs Fiske would appear As to Arliss he was loaded right to hit hi a mark high up He was wa weird in his wickedness a thing of or diabolism separate and apart from hii hi victims never quite quie with them always back of oC them evil evl for the mere merc sake ol or of hellishness a creation creaton to be admired by people of oC critical taste but what will the multitude think of it itA wi V 8 i iA A woman in The Man From Home says to the hero whenever lie he vexes her with repartee Dont mumble your words It I is such a catch frase as dramatists used use to think essential but of late have discarded and on the opening night in New Kew York it count co nt for laughter until it i was spoken by b some one in the audi audience audience audience ence That was when William Hodge the was called caled out to say sy something for Real or mock modesty made him hl Inaudible Dont Don mumble your our words came loud anc and clear from away back in the parquet cear Hodge tried to laugh with wih the people yet yet when they listened again he raised his voice to say J Thank you and so I cant tell tel you whether hether he mentioned Booth This actor and this author ought to feel fee very ven ver much obliged to each ch other The play pia has another author Harry Ham Leon Lon Wilson but I take it that he formulated ed It I and wrote most of or its Is straight straightaway straightaway away awa matter mater while the Indiana novel novelIst 1st provided the colloquial wit it and Tiu hu humar mar mor for the man mentioned in th title tte as from home A whole long season in Chicago had left no doubt o othe of oC the popularity of thiS comedy comey so I turn tur to the task of apportioning the thi merits Surely SuretY there is nothing to brag brg of in inthe Inthe inthe the plan and scope of The Tho Man From Home Its Us brash brah American abroad abro d who Insults aristocrats ut without get getting getting ting a kick or a a cuff has ha multiplied himself since Jefferson Jeferson was Asa As Tren Trenchard Trenchard Trenchard chard In Our American Cousin along with wih E A A Sothern Soth rn as a Lord Lr Dun Dundrea dreary drean drea Crane Crne Raymond and Good Goodwin Goodwin Goodwin win have exploited him and he te is IRever eve ever evera xa a his countrymen In Inthis Inthis Inthis this example of the t e familiar of ot Americanism he Is I i a ayoung ayoung young lawyer of or Kokomo and h he crosses cose the Atlantic to look after aCer an anI I Indiana heiress over whom hom he Is a guardian and nd who wishes to buy a titled English husband with a n settle settlement settlement ment of oC of oC a million The lawyer ascertains that the family she sh would pay such Huch a a price to marry into is not only beggarly but criminal and he saves ses her he from its is son to be a wife to himself All that is stale stuff but there is a jolly joly freshening of or it by Booth with wih funny lines and William Hodge with wih a a droll drol utterance of ot them Maybe you saw saw Hodge as the lazy lay old bummer In Mrs Mr Wiggs Wigg of the Cabbage Patch boisterous ana an ana drunken His or ot this tad Indi Indiana ana lawyer is not like that but ut in quiet drollery resembles his rustics In InSky InSky InSky Sky Farm Farmand and Sag Harbor Na Nature N Nature ture has made him a long lank tel fel fellow tellow tellow low with wih a country countr twang that he cant help and a a better choice for the good of the play have been leen made Yet his last starring venture was as a flat fat failure with wih a a farce of ot his own writing So I will wi conclude that the Jocular success of oC The Man ManFrom ManFrom an From Home is Is due equally to Tark Ington In ton and Hodge It I was a mistake to promise a fort fortnight fortnight fortnight night ago that I would write no more thIs his summer summer about I might have ave known that one or another of or the dancing women would be so singular that lat an account would be compulsory Well Wel two do It this week one anonymously anonymously anonymously and one ridiculously Egypt Egyptologists believe beleve that an ancient dance or of f the seven veils veis was the one with wih which Salome bewitched her stepfather ste and nd got St John John beheaded for tor her er mother Oscar Wilde Wide accepted that as authoritative when hen he wrote rote his short play lay of ot Salome afterward utilized as a the libretto for tor the opera oper which the trustees of oC the Metropolitan decide d clde shall hall not be repeated on their stage but ut which Is to be given next winter at t the Manhattan with wih Mary Garden Gardenas Gardena as a she says In a a costume that bothers her Jeweler more than her dressmaker To be historically correct though she should hould be wrapped in hr In seven veils els and not ot a scrap else As the original girl of f the Herod exploit posed and gyrated she he unwound and cast off ot one after another of these strips of oC gauze guze until she ho delivered herself hersel nude to the old wretch Julia ula Marlowe when she played with wit E H Sothern in John the Baptist did all al that except in the one particular After tossing away the final Inal veil el she was sti draped in white from Crom rom neck to heels but Julia Julo is an artist arist and as a she threw herself flat fat be before before fore ore Herod a mantle mante was us spread quick quickly ly y over oer her by Herodias and the needed dramatic effect is w wrought startling startlingly ly y without the smallest sacrifice of ot womanliness by the actress S A hundred and no less are dancing lancing now In New York if we add to Broadways eight all al that are in vaude vaudeville vie ville ille burlesque live hive lve interpolations In moving picture shows and even een the single ingle dime museum that is left to us from rom the past Only one of all aU these tese teseso so o far Car as I have seen or heard gives gIve the he dance of oC the seven veils veis The exception is billed bied at a Brighton Beach theatre as Who Am I Two To sum summers summers summers mers ago the Red Domino made her herself self elf a notoriety In a roof roC garden grden by b reserving her face from the exposure of herself herselt A guess gess was wa that her cov coy covered ered red visage was old and ugly but the theater later ater removal of oC the mask originally Intended to shield bv lc I sensitive eyes from Crom the footlights glare and utilized as an device showed shoved the pretty Dalsie who ho became the premier of oC the grand opera oper ballet balet Time may maytel tell tel how it I is with Who Am I Her Herdea Idea dea Idea Is to make folks think she wishes to conceal her Identity In her sacrifices of or modesty to art ar She Is a a slender lithe Ithe expert and she does not stop short of or complete sincerity with wih the veils els as ns Miss Marlowe did but Ut upon the removal of the seventh stands forth with wih nothing on save sae the mask and a partial enclosure so skin like ike in texture that It I Is hard had to detect the junctures of oC the bare arms ars and legs with wih the trunk that Is really realy cov coy covered covered ered but look so The discrimInate mate nate eyes of oC a woman w man discerned the truth for me Dolt of oC a man that you are she said human hides perspire and tights dont Now look again f 7 i iNow Now for Eva Ea TanSa the Salome that is funny funn Eva Ea Is a new Barnum Barum of ot bluff in the show business Able ble to neither sing nor dance expertly expert she yet has hag made more money mone by b doing both badly than any clever American within the past year Her sole qualification qualification cation caton to start with wih was a symmetrical figure Her act began In long tong skirts shortened them for her second song re removed removed moved noved the remnants remnant for the third and that process was particularly audacious because it I the slightest excuse In the ballads She seems to have had hada a shrewd mind in the body which she thus put on exhibition for while caper capering caperIng caperIng ing about the stage with wih no grace gace and yelling verses with wih no melody she be behaved behaved haved bayed so violently as to suggest craziness ness and used rhymes declaring that though her voice olce was a freak to shriek and her dance was a a chance J to prance she defied deed the managers manager to get along without her the critics to abolish her and the audiences to dis dislike dislike like her The uncritical unsophisticated unsophisticated people especially the women who make up the audiences at the audiences at the dozen highly respectable respect J ble vaudeville houses in New York dote on her 2 That is why Eva Salome crowds as big a theatre as we ie e have save sae three and ad it Is said saidI I think truth truthfully truthfully fully too that even in midsummer she sheget gets get 1500 10 a week for In the whole program there Is nothing else costly and the only incidental expense is the doubled orchestra which she Insists on onto onto onto to play th music that one of or the wrote for Oscar Wildes opera After she has ha given her usua usual four tour songs ending with wih the one for tor th the refrain of ot which she screeches I don dont care in defiance of oC Imaginary imagna ene enemies enemies enemies mies the lights are ar lowered and ad on a white screen is thrown the explanation that Salome has already danced before eCore Herod to win the head of ot John the Bap Baptist While time is given for a perusal the te big orchestra plays softly softy and when hen the stage is reopened the gory gor trophy is seen on a pedestal ghastly with faint green geen light while Eva Sa Salome Salome lome home stands for tor a momen moment spotlighted on a raised space at th the back She seems to be absolutely naked except between hips and knees knee but I it quite so for tor shells too fleshy t to denude her torso and she solves soles th the problem by b whitening her body with wih a textile tete so snug that tat It looks like hike pow powdered powdered powdered dered skin as a her arms ams and legs are ar really realy Thus she Is more like one o of oC those living statues that had the their day In indecency years ear ago than a re recruit cruit cri to the present army ary of S That Tat far fa Eva Ea is soberly impressive and an more statuesque than tan sensuous S Then Immediately Imme lately she become runny funny very er funny Cunny She runs down the way two or three steps at a time yell Ing In that sorry sorl she danced St St Johns head hed off of and that her mamma |